The list of the "coalition of the willing" mentioned only tiny, irrelvant countries, and skipped over really important ones: England, Spain, Poland, the Netherlands. Yes, we did 90% of the work ourselves, but the film implied that we had absolutely no international support, which is simply not true.
You missed the Netherlands. Remember the guy lighting up the bong? That was his reference to the Netherlands (yes, the name of the Netherlands was displayed, too). The Netherlands have 1,300 troops in Iraq, making them one of the larger contingents.
Moore didn't bother to mention England, Poland, or Spain because the administration has mentioned them dozens of times. His point was that the grand coalition numbers of countries included a number of countries who actually had nothing to contribute but lip service.
My own criticism is that he ridiculed some of the people in these countries with his choice of images. The Amsterdam pot-head was probably the LEAST insulting of the images he chose.
The story of the man who mentioned to guys in a gym that he considered Bush a terrorist and found himself speaking to the FBI the following day rang false. Many, many people accuse Bush of being as bad as terrorists. If a call is placed to the FBI telling them that, they ignore it. Did the man's gym companions accuse him of something worse? It seems clear that there is more to the story here. Moore implies that the FBI is cracking down on people who dislike the President, and I don't think he justified that.
I don't think you quite understood this. The point was not that the FBI was as a whole cracking down on dissent; it was that the USA Patriot act gives the FBI and other law enforcement agencies the ability to crack down on dissent if they so chose. I think the idea was that this particular FBI office was playing Stasi because they could - not that the entire FBI was out to stop dissent.
A man's name was blacked out on one of Bush's army papers. The implication was that this was covering up something evil. But it doesn't appear that the relationship between this man and Bush was a secret, and the paper doesn't imply that they did anything sinister except skip out on their service. I suspect the man's name was blacked out simply because it wasn't relevant: the release concerned Bush's record, not this guy's. The other nasty bits of the relationship between this guy and Bush, like the cozy foreign investments, are irrelevant to this document.
Not at all. Let's keep in mind - the man's name was not blacked out when Moore got the documents in 2000. They were when he got the documents in 2003. Why? The fellow was a foreign investment advisor for the Bin Laden family, who is listed in the documents as having skipped out on a medical exam at the same time Bush did (the two paragraphs, one on Bush's failure to be examined, one on this guy's failure to be examined, were in sequence). The fellow also invested some money HIMSELF in Bush's own oil drilling company. The implication is that the Administration deliberately censored the document after 9/11 because the fellow was someone investing Bin Laden money who invested his own money in Bush, suggesting the possibility that perhaps Bin Laden money was behind Bush's first oil drilling company. This was of a piece with the point that Bandar has a Secret Service protection squad (which is not normal for Ambassadors), and that one of the Bin Ladens was at a meeting of the Carlyle board with GHW Bush on September 10, 2001, and that the arrangement to spirit the Bin Ladens out of the country when all other passenger flights were grounded did not allow the Bin Ladens to be questioned by the FBI regarding possible financial ties with Osama Bin Laden.
There were others, but I'd need to go through the movie again, point by point. It's not that I disagree with Moore's overall thesis; in fact, I do believe it. But these things, which I consider dishonest, make me wonder about some of the other points he was maki
Well, considering the fact that O'Reilly claims to have won a Peabody back when he was on that horror show of a tabloid "journalism" program he used to anchor, when it in fact won what award it did (not a Peabody) after he had left it, and this has been documented by separate sources with actual video clips, I think I'll dismiss anything O'Reilly has to say about conversations with Michael Moore.
This was modded insightful? Holocaust revisionists do not "just take things out of context." They deny the EYEWITNESS TESTIMONY of both Holacaust survivors and convicted war criminals. By the way, thank you for bring Godwin's Law to the table so early in the discussion.
What makes you think weather satellite transmissions would remain unencrypted if the weather industry lobbyists succeed in preventing the NWS from providing direct free weather information over the internet? These folks have built their industry out of packaging and distributing free government data, and now that new technologies have made distribution cheap enough for the government to provide the data directly to the taxpayer, they realize the free ride is over. So do they decide to offer new value-added services to maintain their audience? No, they want to surpress the competition.
Always keep this in mind when you think about free markets: free markets are the result of an equilibrium of self-interest. No company in a market acts in the best interests of the market - their urge is always to attempt to limit the market to serve only their own interests. When each competitor's interests serve to cancel out the interests of other competitors, free markets are self-correcting and flourish. But when limiting the market is in the best interests of ALL existing competitors, those competitors will act in cooperation to suppress the free market. That's why free markets don't work in a true anarchy - because in an absolutely free market the common interest of all factors in an industry will lead to the development of a cartel, and competition will tend to be limited to a stable equilibrium (until one competitor gains an advantage that allows them to wipe out the rest of the cartel and establish a monopoly).
They're also hard SF set on a small spacecraft with crews that walk the edges of legality (on Beebop, the near edge, on Firefly, the far edge). Not only gritty, they're both quite dark in a pessimistic sort of way (though Beebop is DARK, and Firefly is only Buffy-dark). They have a number of similarities in tone, though there're pretty marked differences as well. I'd certainly consider them closer to one another than either is to e.g. *Pitch Black* or *Alien*.
Actually, no. They've all been viruses that could wipe your user directory (like erasing ~) if you opened them, or could do real damage if you responded to a prompt for your admin password when they tried to install themselves. This is quite different from a worm like Sasser or CodeRed.
Heyell, when I was in school, we had to trudge through the snow five blocks uphill and slip and fall down the steps to the academic technology department basement just for the privilege of logging into a VT100 terminal if we were lucky, and a teletype machine if we weren't so lucky. Word processors? We wrote everything in a line editor and used TeX for simple paragraph formatting. Web? We thought Gopher was the next big thing.
If you could afford a computer in your dorm room, it was probably a Compaq the size of a small Volkswagen. And then we trudged 5 blocks uphill through the snow and fell up the stairs to our dorms, and that's the way it was, and we LIKED it.
think we are possibly providing hosting for undetectable spammers but the boss thinks I'm paranoid, and says that I need to be working on paying work, not security.
You've got a money hemorrage on your servers. Don't bother trying to talk sense to your boss, just strengthen up your arms and be read to jump ship and swim when the next boat comes along. Start shopping your resume now, and remember: when everyone is out to get you, paranoia is just good sense.
If you can stomach anime at all, you'll probably like Cowboy Beebop. It's just similar enough in tone to Firefly to be interesting (but not enough to make Firefly "a ripoff").
Now if only someone would get an OS X version of the GUI done; one of the things I found interesting was looking at the signal characteristics for all the candidate signals.
Although she was surprised by some inappropriate music, "I'm glad that the schools were even considered," said Cynthia Schultz, director of learning resources for the Northwest Educational Service District, which covers counties from Snohomish to San Juan.
"Whether or not we considered it 'good' was irrelevant," Schultz said. "There was a whole collection of Gene Autry albums. My husband would've given his eyeteeth for those."
Thing is, it's pretty easy to get money from charities, governments, private philanthropists, and other institutions to fund medical work. How easy is it for Seti to get that money?
Nope, the details with the League of Nations were different. And everything else you mentioned is post-Foundation. (Foundation, by the way, was based on a reading of Gibbon's *Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire*.)
The next thing you know, some of these groups are attacking the core worlds, because they want Starfleet technology and knowledge that was withdrawn when they broke away from the Federation, there are old grudges flaring up, the Klingons and Romulans are nibbling at the edges, gleefully taking advantage of the Chaos, Starfleet are trying to maintain their principles and dignity while their ideals are collapsing around them, and so on.
Overall, the acting on B5 was terrible - except for those few transcendant scenes, like Ivanova's "death incarnate" speech (though "the last damn thing you'll ever see" brought the tone down to a little too much bathos), or Londo putting the Watcher to sleep and letting Sheridan and Delenn escape, or, finally, Londo looking up and seeing with his own eyes the fleet of Shadow ships he'd had nightmares about. The problem with JMS is that he's all setup, but rarely much payoff. The only really good decisive battle scene was the Fall of Centauri Prime - the final resolution of the Shadow war was empty.
The acting on DS9 was much better - and the writing was more consistent than JMS's writing. Yes, JMS usually had higher highs, but his lows were more common and more flat. Besides, none of the characters - not even Londo at the end or G'Kar - could hold a candle to Garak.
Read Wolfe's The Right Stuff. Yes, he did, and he apparently said "Well, I'm a wetback now" after it happened, which didn't exactly endear him to the brass.
Turn the machine on. Turn the firewall on. THEN plug in the ethernet cable. Or just use Windows catalog on another machine to download the service pack and all the security patches (there's a rollup for most of them), burn to Cd, and install them before plugging in the ethernet cable. Me, I just install behind a router with all the ports off. (Conveniently, my home Windows box is running through my Airport, and only my Mac is exposed to the outside world.)
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The list of the "coalition of the willing" mentioned only tiny, irrelvant countries, and skipped over really important ones: England, Spain, Poland, the Netherlands. Yes, we did 90% of the work ourselves, but the film implied that we had absolutely no international support, which is simply not true.
You missed the Netherlands. Remember the guy lighting up the bong? That was his reference to the Netherlands (yes, the name of the Netherlands was displayed, too). The Netherlands have 1,300 troops in Iraq, making them one of the larger contingents.
Moore didn't bother to mention England, Poland, or Spain because the administration has mentioned them dozens of times. His point was that the grand coalition numbers of countries included a number of countries who actually had nothing to contribute but lip service.
My own criticism is that he ridiculed some of the people in these countries with his choice of images. The Amsterdam pot-head was probably the LEAST insulting of the images he chose.
The story of the man who mentioned to guys in a gym that he considered Bush a terrorist and found himself speaking to the FBI the following day rang false. Many, many people accuse Bush of being as bad as terrorists. If a call is placed to the FBI telling them that, they ignore it. Did the man's gym companions accuse him of something worse? It seems clear that there is more to the story here. Moore implies that the FBI is cracking down on people who dislike the President, and I don't think he justified that.
I don't think you quite understood this. The point was not that the FBI was as a whole cracking down on dissent; it was that the USA Patriot act gives the FBI and other law enforcement agencies the ability to crack down on dissent if they so chose. I think the idea was that this particular FBI office was playing Stasi because they could - not that the entire FBI was out to stop dissent.
A man's name was blacked out on one of Bush's army papers. The implication was that this was covering up something evil. But it doesn't appear that the relationship between this man and Bush was a secret, and the paper doesn't imply that they did anything sinister except skip out on their service. I suspect the man's name was blacked out simply because it wasn't relevant: the release concerned Bush's record, not this guy's. The other nasty bits of the relationship between this guy and Bush, like the cozy foreign investments, are irrelevant to this document.
Not at all. Let's keep in mind - the man's name was not blacked out when Moore got the documents in 2000. They were when he got the documents in 2003. Why? The fellow was a foreign investment advisor for the Bin Laden family, who is listed in the documents as having skipped out on a medical exam at the same time Bush did (the two paragraphs, one on Bush's failure to be examined, one on this guy's failure to be examined, were in sequence). The fellow also invested some money HIMSELF in Bush's own oil drilling company. The implication is that the Administration deliberately censored the document after 9/11 because the fellow was someone investing Bin Laden money who invested his own money in Bush, suggesting the possibility that perhaps Bin Laden money was behind Bush's first oil drilling company. This was of a piece with the point that Bandar has a Secret Service protection squad (which is not normal for Ambassadors), and that one of the Bin Ladens was at a meeting of the Carlyle board with GHW Bush on September 10, 2001, and that the arrangement to spirit the Bin Ladens out of the country when all other passenger flights were grounded did not allow the Bin Ladens to be questioned by the FBI regarding possible financial ties with Osama Bin Laden.
There were others, but I'd need to go through the movie again, point by point. It's not that I disagree with Moore's overall thesis; in fact, I do believe it. But these things, which I consider dishonest, make me wonder about some of the other points he was maki
Well, considering the fact that O'Reilly claims to have won a Peabody back when he was on that horror show of a tabloid "journalism" program he used to anchor, when it in fact won what award it did (not a Peabody) after he had left it, and this has been documented by separate sources with actual video clips, I think I'll dismiss anything O'Reilly has to say about conversations with Michael Moore.
This was modded insightful? Holocaust revisionists do not "just take things out of context." They deny the EYEWITNESS TESTIMONY of both Holacaust survivors and convicted war criminals. By the way, thank you for bring Godwin's Law to the table so early in the discussion.
What makes you think weather satellite transmissions would remain unencrypted if the weather industry lobbyists succeed in preventing the NWS from providing direct free weather information over the internet? These folks have built their industry out of packaging and distributing free government data, and now that new technologies have made distribution cheap enough for the government to provide the data directly to the taxpayer, they realize the free ride is over. So do they decide to offer new value-added services to maintain their audience? No, they want to surpress the competition.
Always keep this in mind when you think about free markets: free markets are the result of an equilibrium of self-interest. No company in a market acts in the best interests of the market - their urge is always to attempt to limit the market to serve only their own interests. When each competitor's interests serve to cancel out the interests of other competitors, free markets are self-correcting and flourish. But when limiting the market is in the best interests of ALL existing competitors, those competitors will act in cooperation to suppress the free market. That's why free markets don't work in a true anarchy - because in an absolutely free market the common interest of all factors in an industry will lead to the development of a cartel, and competition will tend to be limited to a stable equilibrium (until one competitor gains an advantage that allows them to wipe out the rest of the cartel and establish a monopoly).
They're also hard SF set on a small spacecraft with crews that walk the edges of legality (on Beebop, the near edge, on Firefly, the far edge). Not only gritty, they're both quite dark in a pessimistic sort of way (though Beebop is DARK, and Firefly is only Buffy-dark). They have a number of similarities in tone, though there're pretty marked differences as well. I'd certainly consider them closer to one another than either is to e.g. *Pitch Black* or *Alien*.
Actually, no. They've all been viruses that could wipe your user directory (like erasing ~) if you opened them, or could do real damage if you responded to a prompt for your admin password when they tried to install themselves. This is quite different from a worm like Sasser or CodeRed.
Heyell, when I was in school, we had to trudge through the snow five blocks uphill and slip and fall down the steps to the academic technology department basement just for the privilege of logging into a VT100 terminal if we were lucky, and a teletype machine if we weren't so lucky. Word processors? We wrote everything in a line editor and used TeX for simple paragraph formatting. Web? We thought Gopher was the next big thing. If you could afford a computer in your dorm room, it was probably a Compaq the size of a small Volkswagen. And then we trudged 5 blocks uphill through the snow and fell up the stairs to our dorms, and that's the way it was, and we LIKED it.
think we are possibly providing hosting for undetectable spammers but the boss thinks I'm paranoid, and says that I need to be working on paying work, not security.
You've got a money hemorrage on your servers. Don't bother trying to talk sense to your boss, just strengthen up your arms and be read to jump ship and swim when the next boat comes along. Start shopping your resume now, and remember: when everyone is out to get you, paranoia is just good sense.
If you can stomach anime at all, you'll probably like Cowboy Beebop. It's just similar enough in tone to Firefly to be interesting (but not enough to make Firefly "a ripoff").
Yeah, to bad the show got canned before they could get around to what his deal was. "How's a preacher know so much 'bout crime?
"That's no preacher." I figure he must be an exile from Blue Sun who sided with the browncoats, but for some reason is still considered untouchable.
I believe the technical name for that topos is "the contractors on the Death Star."
Now if only someone would get an OS X version of the GUI done; one of the things I found interesting was looking at the signal characteristics for all the candidate signals.
Although she was surprised by some inappropriate music, "I'm glad that the schools were even considered," said Cynthia Schultz, director of learning resources for the Northwest Educational Service District, which covers counties from Snohomish to San Juan.
"Whether or not we considered it 'good' was irrelevant," Schultz said. "There was a whole collection of Gene Autry albums. My husband would've given his eyeteeth for those."
Damn. Doesn't that just say it all?
There's a great version of "Everybody Knows" by Henley (unlisted track at the end of his Greatest Hits album).
Absolutely. The UI on Gmail is superb. If I could get that UI for all my email accounts, I'd gladly pay a subscription fee.
Thing is, it's pretty easy to get money from charities, governments, private philanthropists, and other institutions to fund medical work. How easy is it for Seti to get that money?
I'm pretty sure this does it, depending on what video card you have. Look for "Home Video Server".
Nope, the details with the League of Nations were different. And everything else you mentioned is post-Foundation. (Foundation, by the way, was based on a reading of Gibbon's *Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire*.)
Holy hell. I've been grousing about not being able to find a card like this for my G5, and now here you come and show me I don't need one?
The next thing you know, some of these groups are attacking the core worlds, because they want Starfleet technology and knowledge that was withdrawn when they broke away from the Federation, there are old grudges flaring up, the Klingons and Romulans are nibbling at the edges, gleefully taking advantage of the Chaos, Starfleet are trying to maintain their principles and dignity while their ideals are collapsing around them, and so on.
In other words, Foundation.
Overall, the acting on B5 was terrible - except for those few transcendant scenes, like Ivanova's "death incarnate" speech (though "the last damn thing you'll ever see" brought the tone down to a little too much bathos), or Londo putting the Watcher to sleep and letting Sheridan and Delenn escape, or, finally, Londo looking up and seeing with his own eyes the fleet of Shadow ships he'd had nightmares about. The problem with JMS is that he's all setup, but rarely much payoff. The only really good decisive battle scene was the Fall of Centauri Prime - the final resolution of the Shadow war was empty.
The acting on DS9 was much better - and the writing was more consistent than JMS's writing. Yes, JMS usually had higher highs, but his lows were more common and more flat. Besides, none of the characters - not even Londo at the end or G'Kar - could hold a candle to Garak.
DNA would not be amused. DNA was an Apple man.
Read Wolfe's The Right Stuff. Yes, he did, and he apparently said "Well, I'm a wetback now" after it happened, which didn't exactly endear him to the brass.
Turn the machine on. Turn the firewall on. THEN plug in the ethernet cable. Or just use Windows catalog on another machine to download the service pack and all the security patches (there's a rollup for most of them), burn to Cd, and install them before plugging in the ethernet cable. Me, I just install behind a router with all the ports off. (Conveniently, my home Windows box is running through my Airport, and only my Mac is exposed to the outside world.)